The GCSE meeting For the past two days you may have been confused And some of you may have been amused Others sat back and let it pass But nobody wanted to teach a class (The cascade system:- Like pyramid selling-  the teacher at the bottom finishes up with a garage full of ideas no one wants) On the 20th June '84 kicked the old system out the door DES and WO Published a General INTRO O'level and CSE have been replaced by some degree (but don't think that's got us beat, we'll just re-label the old work sheets, Only the grades will be changed to protect the innocent) Y'all came here on Monday Morn To see a new system being born But I didn't think anyone here would know We'd have a vigalence test on a video. (see how long you could stay awake... even took the chairs out of the staff-room) When I scored my self-assement test Found the thing that I did best Was communicating information And the kids all liked role-play simulation (I pretended I was communicating and they pretended to listen)

(As the maestro said "this may be useful to some of you  some day in some set of bizarre circumstances....) Well we got all the blurb and glossary But my profile-reporting lost validity When a cute little English teacher smiles Is that "complimentary teaching styles"?  After tea things got pretty neat Went to a departmental meet Tossed ideas around the room Out with the old and bought a new broom. (English department's got great plans just ask new questions to the old exams) Huh!" Departmental meetings".... go in sane.... depart... mental Highlight of yesterday Was when we were told we all could play Assessing each-other on orals skills Sure thought we'd have some thrills (I got it wrong again) Well now we've all been to the shows Seen GCSE and how it goes Got new exams cooking under the lids Trouble may be feeding the same old kids (have to leave all the "beens" out of the recipe)